Date: 09/27/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Faith Always Works
Scripture: James 2:14-26
Description: Throughout his letter, and especially in this text, James makes one main point: faith apart from works is dead. But what does James mean? And how should we respond?
Date: 09/13/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: No Partiality
Scripture: James 2:1-13
Description: Genuine faith in Jesus leaves no place for partiality in Christian community. Bottom line: if you want to be with Jesus, you lose the right to be picky about who you’re willing to love.
Date: 09/06/15
Speaker: Matt Givens
Title: Faith That Works
Scripture: James 1:19-27
Description: James wants to show us that genuine faith always makes a difference in how we live our lives. In other words, faith always works. In this passage he shows us why faith works, how faith works, and where faith works.
Date: 08/30/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Gifts Of God And The Trials Of Life
Scripture: James 1:1-18
Description: James opens his letter full of commands with perhaps the most surprising command of all. He insists we’re to see the trials we face in life as cause for joy. It is through trials that we grow in maturity, through trials that we’re protected from a faith that’s not genuine. So what sort of trials should we expect? And where can we get what we need to persevere?
Date: 08/23/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Introducing James: Faith Breeds Wisdom
Scripture: James (Various Texts)
Description: To make the most of the letter of James, like any other biblical text, we need to know what it’s meant for and how we should use it.
Date: 08/16/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Resilient Joy
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 11:8-12:8
Description: Ecclesiastes is a book about meaninglessness and death, but it’s also a book about joy. Many times through the book, the author follows up sections on the depressing emptiness of life under the sun by telling us to enjoy ourselves as long as we live. How can we live with joy in a world so full of vanity?
Date: 08/09/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Good Is Justice?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 3:16-4:3
Description: In two places Ecclesiastes laments the power of injustice, and in both places the author ties injustice to the problem of death. If death is our end, why do human lives deserve to be protected equally? And if the just and the unjust both end up dying, why worry with justice at all? Our only hope for the justice we crave is a God who sees all things and will judge us—all of us—after death.
Date: 08/02/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Good Is Wealth?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 5:10-20
Description: When we look to wealth to make us happy or to make us secure, we’re only striving after wind. But when we trust the providence of God we can fully enjoy his gifts, and when we trust the promises of God we can hold his gifts loosely.
Date: 07/26/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Good Is Pleasure?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 2:1-11
Description: Can lots of pleasure make a short life meaningful? That’s the question the author of Ecclesiastes set out to answer with the lavish lifestyle he describes in this passage, a lifestyle where he did anything and everything he wanted to do. His experiment reached an awful conclusion, but his wisdom paves the way for a joyful alternative.
Date: 07/19/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: What Good Is Work?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Description: Ecclesiastes catalogs the meaningless of life “under the sun”—the world as it is if there is nothing and no one that lasts forever. The author takes up his first example with a question: what good is all of our work? The answer? It all depends on our perspective. Under the sun, our work is a dead end. But in the Lord, our work is an opportunity.
Date: 07/12/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Introducing Ecclesiastes: What Good Is Wisdom If You're Dead?
Scripture: Ecclesiastes (Various Texts)
Description: Ecclesiastes is probably the darkest book in the Bible. It’s author imagines the meaning of life if all there is to it is what we experience “under the sun”, as if God doesn’t exist. His conclusions sound remarkably modern: everything is meaningless because everything dies. Unless…
Date: 07/05/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Job’s God (Part 2)
Scripture: Job 40:6-42:6
Description: God's final response to Job's anguished questions about innocent suffering is a portrait of two bizarre monsters, called Behemoth and Leviathan. Who are these creatures, and how is this speech meant to encourage Job and us in our sorrow?
Date: 06/28/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Job’s God (Part 1)
Scripture: Job 38:1-40:2
Description: Job’s lost everything even though he’d done nothing wrong. His main desire was to know why. Near the end of the book, in a passage of remarkable power and beauty, God finally speaks to him. But what God says is not what Job expected. He doesn’t mention Job’s experience at all. He responds instead with a poem celebrating the vastness, complexity, and wildness of the natural world. How is this response helpful?
Date: 06/21/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Job’s Faith
Scripture: Job 1:20-22
Description: What is the wise way to respond to innocent suffering? This question is central to the book of Job. No one paying attention to the world can deny the reality of innocent suffering—that our experience of the world is far from what we wish it to be, and often our suffering doesn’t make sense. If Job’s friends show us how not to respond to this reality, Job’s own responses to his friends and to his God model authentic faith in our suffering.
Date: 06/14/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Job’s Friends
Scripture: Job 2:11-37:24
Description: Job is about the wise way to respond to suffering, but it’s not just about your own suffering. It’s about how to respond wisely to the suffering of others. The largest portion of Job is a back-and-forth conversation between Job and three of his close friends, friends who came to comfort him but made a horrible job of it. We can learn how to comfort one another with wisdom by recognizing what Job’s friends got wrong.
Date: 06/07/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Job’s Suffering
Scripture: Job 1:1-2:8
Description: Job tells the story of a man who was wise and good, enjoying all the benefits of wisdom that Proverbs predicts. Job had everything, then he lost everything, and it wasn’t his fault. Job’s suffering raises questions none of us can avoid if we’re paying attention. At one level, there’s the mystery around all innocent suffering: what is God doing? At a deeper level, suffering raises a question of worship: can we love God for himself, even if we lose the things we want to get from him?
Date: 05/31/15
Speaker: Drew Raines
Title: Wisdom In The Home
Scripture: Proverbs (various texts)
Description: Proverbs walks through the lifecycle of the human experience—as a child, an adult, a spouse, and a parent—and applies the fear of the Lord at each phase.
Date: 05/24/15
Speaker: Bill Heerman
Title: Trusting A Sovereign God Is The Foundation Of Wisdom
Scripture: Proverbs (various texts)
Description: Proverbs reminds us that the same wise God who designed the Earth and everything within it is also the sovereign God over our individual lives. Therefore, we are wise to trust him to guide our steps.
Date: 05/17/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: Contentment
Scripture: Proverbs 30:1-9
Description: Everyone struggles with contentment, and no one likes the way discontent feels. The wisdom of Proverbs helps us recognize where our discontent comes from and points the way toward true contentment through fear of the Lord.
Date: 05/03/15
Speaker: Matt McCullough
Title: The Sluggard
Scripture: Proverbs (various texts)
Description: One of Proverbs’ favorite subjects is the sluggard—a comedic, somewhat endearing, ultimately tragic figure that looks a little too familiar. The portrait of the sluggard warns us against the destructive power of sloth, and points us towards the invigorating rest promised in Jesus.
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